Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin
In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name ...
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Kilgubbin once an Irish slum in Chicago
The name became symbolic of slums where ... which became the South Side’s Bridgeport neighborhood. And when the Great Famine devastated Ireland in the 1840s, Chicago was a destination for ...
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Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin
The name became symbolic of slums where ... which became the South Side’s Bridgeport neighborhood. And when the Great Famine devastated Ireland in the 1840s, Chicago was a destination for ...